As far as Nice Things, you can rationalize unexcellence as much as you
want (see, e.g.
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermailnoisebridge-discuss/2010-March/012896.html)
but it's going to happen anyway. I've more or less accepted it as a
cost of some of the features we enjoy.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
>> As to "Why We Can't Have Nice Things at Noisebridge",
> that issue makes me furious!
> It's horribly inconsiderate to take things away: I'm
> guessing mainly it's a sloppy, selfish mentality to the
> effect that "I'll just use it and bring it back after
> I'm done", which very often fails to "I'll just use it
> and let it sit around unused and forgotten somewhere at
> my house forever more after I'm done."
> Possible approaches include
> * We Can't Have Anything Nice at Noisebridge
> * People can bring in their personal nice things and
> label them and put them in their member shelves and
> loan them out when/if they see fit.
> * Have a checkout system for some things--probably a
> signout sheet: probably a fair number of people will
> sign stuff out before they take things home and leave
> them there, and when asked, they'll probably be able
> to find the things and bring them back.